Apache Cassandra 1.1.8 / 1.0.12 / 0.8.10 / 0.7.10 / 1.2.0 rc2

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It was built by Facebook for their services upon principles developed by Google and Amazon for BigTable and Dynamo.

Apache Cassandra is currently developed by Apache.

Cassandra is extremely fast, even with million of records and operations.

It is currently used in many Internet companies like Rackspace, Spotify, Netflix, RockMelt, Embedly, Ericcson, Expedia, FormSpring, Adobe, Twitter, Cisco, Digg, Mollom, Digital River, Page2RSS, Real, Reddit, eBuddy, EngineYard, Symantec, Soundcloud, Accenture, Rhapsody, Gowalla, HP, IBM, Mahalo, Walmart, OpenX and others.

Here are some key features of "Apache Cassandra":

· Professionally Supported
· Durable
· Elastic
· Decentralized
· Rich Data Model
· Fault Tolerant
· Cluster and Cloud Friendly
· Documentation and Tutorials

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Removed all remnants of removed nodes.
· Added aut-reloading of the log4j file in debian package.
· Fixed estimated row cache entry size.
· reset getRangeSlice filter after finishing a row for get_paged_slice
· Expunges row cache post-truncate.
· Allow static CF definition with compact storage.
· Fixed endless loop/compaction of schema_* CFs due to broken timestamps.
· Fixed 'wrong class type' assertion in CounterColumn.

Via: Apache Cassandra 1.1.8 / 1.0.12 / 0.8.10 / 0.7.10 / 1.2.0 rc2